Mother May I
Coming October 13th
When an eighteen-year-old single mother loses her toddler in the crowd at a county fair, she searches for the girl until she is emotionally and physically spent. After two fruitless years, with no family or partner to share the burden, she joins the Army—where she is recruited into the CIA’s paramilitary branch, drawn to her relentless drive and unshakable focus.
Fifteen years after her daughter’s disappearance, during a routine operation, the mother—now a private intelligence contractor—spots a woman wearing her daughter’s necklace, the only clue ever recovered. She blows the assignment, earning the fury of her employer. But she finally has something she hasn’t had in years: hope.
Beginning in Los Angeles, where she first saw the necklace, she launches a scorched-earth search across the country, using the skills she learned as a covert operative to follow a trail no one else even knows exists. What she uncovers is worse than she imagined.
Her daughter didn’t vanish.
She was taken.
Praise
“Hunsicker delivers a dazzling thrill ride about a mother hell-bent on finding her missing daughter. Readers are advised to clear their schedules before starting this one, because they won’t be able to put it down. It’s on par with the best of Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, and Matthew Quirk.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred RevieW
“Taken meets Thelma & Louise in this adrenaline-rush read that packs plenty of heart in with the non-stop action. This may be Harry’s best novel yet.”
—Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Mother May I is as fierce and relentless as a Texas tornado. Don’t mess with an ex-CIA agent on a quest to find her long lost daughter.”
—Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadowheart
“Harry Hunsicker’s latest novel, Mother May I, introduces a new, indelible character—’Mad Meg’—in a heart-pounding, explosive thriller about a former CIA operative desperately searching for her daughter kidnapped as a child. From a botched covert op in Los Angeles, to a deadly confrontation with an outlaw biker gang, to a final showdown with her daughter’s kidnapper, the pace is relentless, the characters complex, and the savagery of Meg in her continuing quest satisfying in the extreme.”
—Kathleen Kent, author of Black Wolf